Jim Charter wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> 
>> On a slightly *less* insane note, you could probably build some kind 
>> of PHP thing where you submit photos, it gives each one a unique name, 
>> puts it in a folder somewhere, and stores some metadata about it in a 
>> MySQL database and gives you a web interface to query it. 
> 
> Suppose I don't mind populating the MySQL database with the metadata 
> independent of the 'importing' or 'submitting' or 'photo acquiring' 
> process whatever it might be.  What pieces would be needed to query the 
> database and return path names as hyperlinks.  This would require PHP?

You could do that in a web-based way using essentially any server-side 
scripting technique you like (PHP, ASP, Perl, Haskell CGI...) 
Alternatively, MySQL might have tools that allow you to do this more 
easily; I'm not aware of any, but I haven't looked for one either.

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